Globalisasi lebih kompleks dari sebelumnya. Efek dari krisis keuangan global dan meningkatnya ketidaksetaraan telah mendorong sentimen anti-globalisasi di banyak negara dan mendorong penerapan kebijakan populis dan berwawasan ke dalam. Ini menghasilkan beberapa hasil yang mengejutkan: Duterte, Brexit dan Trump. Di Indonesia, kekecewaan terhadap globalisasi telah menyebabkan meningkatnya proteks…
Thomas tengah berada di pertarungan sengit dengan Bujang. Ya, lantaran tak ada petarung lain yang dapat mengalahkannya dalam Klub Petarung, Thomas pun mengundang Bujang untuk meramaikan. Di tengah duel seru mereka, gedung tempat mereka bertarung diserang rombongan bersenjata. Awalnya Bujang merasa bahwa ia yang menjadi sasaran para pembunuh bayaran yang dikirim oleh keluarga penguasa shadow eco…
Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers.
She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigato…
Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up a…
In The Story of Christianity, Vol. 1, Justo L. Gonzalez, author of the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought, presents a narrative history of Christianity, from the early church to the dawn of the Protestant reformation. From Jesus' faithful apostles to the early reformist John Wycliffe, Gonzalez skillfully traces core theological issues and developments within the various tr…
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless o…
Ware can’t wait to spend summer “off in his own world”—dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called “normal” kids do. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an …
Stupidity is all around us. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world's leading psychologists and thinkers--including a Nobel Prize winner and bestselling authors--discuss in articles, essays and interviews - why smart people sometimes believe in utter nonsense; - how our lazy brains cause us to make the wrong decisions; - w…
Raja Gemilang, salah satu murid yang paling disegani dan ditakuti di SMA Garuda. Bersama dengan Ratu Setia Wijaya, mereka berdua menjalani kehidupan di masa putih abu-abu dengan manis dan sederhana. Tidak ada satu pun seulas sapa yang terlewati pada setiap harinya. Hingga sampai suatu saat, keadaan berbalik dengan begitu hebat. Tidak ada lagi Raja dengan kelembutannya, hanya ada kebencian y…